Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software platforms that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forestry progress, take science-based actions, and accelerate forest pathways:
- national forest inventory and in-situ data collection;
- measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for environmental integrity;
- deforestation-free supply chains; and
- restoration monitoring.
Part of FAO's open-source digital public goods, it serves as a transformative accelerator, ensuring innovative, accurate, and transparent forest monitoring accessible to everyone, everywhere, enhancing effectiveness and impact, while meeting the urgent need for systems that enable accurate, yet cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification of forest and other land cover.
Highlights
FAO’s forest monitoring revolution is rooted in Finnish open-source expertise
13/12/2025
Fifteen years ago, a Finnish-funded development project began reshaping how the world monitors its forests. Today, that initiative has evolved into...
Cocoa mapping in Cameroon: EU Sustainable Cocoa Programme advances sustainable production and forest protection
25/11/2025
The European Programme for Sustainable Cocoa (SCP), the operational arm of the European Initiative for Sustainable Cocoa, implemented with FAO, supports...
Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade
30/07/2024
See a live demonstration of FAO’s latest forest monitoring innovation developed to ensure smallholders remain...
AIM4Commodities - Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests and Commodities
01/12/2025
AIM4Commodities (Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests and Commodities) is a global initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization...
Sharing the experience on Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action - SEPAL
24/07/2023
The overall objective of this course is to support knowledge and skills development to operationally apply high-resolution satellite...
Partners
- National Forest Monitoring
- SEPAL
- CBIT-Forest
- AIM4Forests
- REDD+ program
- Global Forest Resources Assessments
- Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
- FERM platform
- Google Earth Engine
- UN-REDD Programme
- NICFI Satellite Data Program
- Planet
- United Kingdom's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety
Contact
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Roma RM (Italy)
[email protected]